Pirelli World Challenge

As first predicted by RACER , GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing has confirmed that it will compete in the 2015 Pirelli World Challenge racing series. The team will continue with its No. 99 "Red Dragon" livery as previously seen on its Daytona Prototypes, with GAINSCO Auto Insurance as the primary sponsor now decorating a Hyundai Genesis Coupe in the PWC's GTS class. Jon Fogarty (at right, ABOVE) will ...

Former TUDOR United SportsCar Championship entrant Bob Stallings Racing stepped away from the series after suffering a devastating crash during January's Rolex 24 at Daytona, and after nearly a year away from the sport, RACER has learned the Texas-based team is preparing for a return in 2015. Stallings (RIGHT) and longtime sponsor/partner GAINSCO are expected to announce they will field an entry ...

Ryan Eversley has amassed an impressive body of work in the lower rungs of sports car racing. Along the way, he's also become one of the sport's most popular and irreverent voices through social media, and with the call to join Acura as a factory GT pilot next season, the Georgian has a prime opportunity to make a name for himself on a much bigger stage. As a longtime member of the Compass 360 Co...

Acura's presence in the Pirelli World Challenge GT category will double in 2015 when rising sports car talent Ryan Eversley (BELOW) joins RealTime Racing owner/driver Peter Cunningham as part of a two-pronged TLX-GT program. Cunningham piloted the No. 42 RTR TLX-GT in a limited number of outings late in the 2014 PWC season, demonstrating great potential with Acura's all-wheel-drive twin-turbo V6 ...

With the 2015 season right around the corner, Bob Raub finds his championship-winning 3R Racing Pirelli World Challenge team in an unfamiliar position. The recent departure of longtime partner K-PAX Racing, which moved its PWC program from 3Râs base in Colorado to a new establishment in California, has Raub searching for opportunities to keep the storied outfit on the grid next year. The veteran ...

Reiter Engineering has revealed what it calls "a far-reaching evolution of the proven GT3 car as Lamborghini's official Gallardo GT3 partner" and plans to enter the new racecar in the Blancpain GT Series, the Pirelli World Challenge and the SRO GT Sports Club. The name reflects the aim: the Reiter Gallardo FL2 GT3 receives a far-reaching and comprehensive facelift, "Extenso." The rear of the car ...

Phoenix American Motorsports, a Phoenixville, PA-based sports car team, in collaboration with Calvert Dynamics, will enter the Pirelli World Challenge for 2015 with a multi-class, multi-car assault. SCCA five-time National Champion Andrew Aquilante will lead the teamâs trio of GTS Boss 302 Mustangs, joined by Preston Calvert (Calvert Dynamics) and Kurt Rezzetano. In addition, Calvert will race a ...

The Unlimited Racing Championship will open its inaugural season in 2015 and will support the Pirelli World Challenge at its headliner events at Circuit of The Americas, Road America, Miller Motorsports Park, and Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The new series will feature identically built NuArt CanAm cars reminiscent of the "glory days" of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (Can-Am) from the 1960 an...

Kelly Moss Motorsports has announced plans for a three-car effort in a full season of the GT Cup Championship in the Pirelli World Challenge in 2015. 2014 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama Platinum Cup champion Colin Thompson will lead the Kelly Moss effort in PWC in 2015 in a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car. Thompson will make his PWC debut in his second season with the team. "We were looking to...

The Pirelli World Challenge Series has hired Marcus Haselgrove (LEFT) as its next director of competition. Haselgrove is widely respected within the North American sports car scene, and leaves his position as Audi Sport Customer Racing North America's manager and engineer for its R8 support program to assume his new role. Haselgrove replaces Geoff Carter, who left PWC last week after three season...

Pirelli World Challenge series racer Shea Holbrook is set to take on a new side of her career next year in the IHRA's Nitro Jam Drag Racing Series, driving a General Electric J-85 Jet-Powered Dragster with Larsen Motorsports. Holbrook, co-owner and driver in the Touring Car category of PWC for Shea Racing â her family-owned team â looks forward to the unique and exciting new venture. "Excitement ...

European GT racer Christina Nielsen has joined the TRG-AMR North America team for the full 2015 Pirelli World Challenge GT season. Nielsen first competed in World Challenge competition at Sonoma Raceway this past August, securing a podium position in her first weekend with the series. Nielsen started her racing career in 2007 with karting followed by various European formula car series including ...

After a decade of thrilling fans with its thundering V8-powered CTS coupe in the Pirelli World Challenge series, Cadillac has revealed its replacement for 2015. The General Motors luxury brand will, as RACER revealed in August, park the CTS-V.Rs in favor of its new twin-turbo V6 ATS. PWC GT champions Johnny O'Connell and Andy Pilgrim will spearhead the development as the veteran drivers prepare t...